This is Finnish director Dome Karukoski's first English language movie.
The Tolkien family and the Estate issued a statement before the film's release to make clear that they did not approve of, authorize or participate in the making of this film, and did not endorse it or its content in any way.
A member of the TCBS chastises Wagner's 'Das Rheingold,' saying it shouldn't take six hours to tell a story about a ring. Of course, the film adaptations of Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings would clock in at over seven hours and nine hours, respectively.
While many aspects of Tolkien 's school experience were dramatized the T.C.B.S was really formed between those 4 friends as a brotherhood of aspiring poets and artists who often discussed art and literature while daydreaming about their futures.
The names mentioned in the epilogue, the elven lady and the man, are Beren and Luthien. Their story is told in The Silmarillion, Tolkien's posthumous book of compiled stories.